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Plot

Igby Goes Down follows the life of Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), the disaffected son of a wealthy family who, after a series of less-than-satisfactory encounters with education and his own family, seeks solace in the SoHo section of New York City. Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor. ... Cast-iron architecture in Greene Street SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

This satirical black comedy features Susan Sarandon as Mimi Slocumb, Igby's cold and calculating mother; Ryan Phillippe as Oliver "Ollie" Slocumb, his "fascist" older brother and Columbia University student to whom the most important thing is outward affluence; Bill Pullman as Jason Slocumb, his schizophrenic father; Jeff Goldblum as D.H. Banes, Igby's extremely wealthy, morally corrupted godfather and benefactor who is later revealed to be his biological father; and Claire Danes as Sookie Sapperstein, a Bennington student who falls into a romance with Igby, only to later betray him with his brother Ollie. Amanda Peet is cast as Rachel, D.H.'s mistress, who claims to be an artist but is in fact little more than a heroin addict. Director Burr Steers' uncle Gore Vidal has a brief cameo as a Catholic priest. 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States and a member of the prestigious Ivy League. ... William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American film and television actor. ... Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an Academy-Award nominated American actor. ... Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theater actress. ... Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont. ... Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress. ... Heroin (INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is an opioid synthesized directly from the extracts of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. ... Burr Steers (born 1966) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. ... Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) (pronounced , occasionally , , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. ...

Many reviewers have observed similarities between Igby Goes Down and J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, a novel which deals with themes of alienation, teenage angst and dysfunctional relationships; both follow a teenage boy's journey through New York City after his expulsion from a private school. The disillusionment of both Holden Caulfield and Igby are meant to explain that sophomoric angst is the acme of a young man's life, though they both see it through to the next day. The themes of continuity have slight variations, though both have become cornerstones of youthful tales of disillusionment and the desire for something more than what is placed in front of the lead characters. Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ... The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

• Tagline: Insanity is relative.

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Cast

• Kieran Culkin: Jason 'Igby' Slocumb, Jr.
• Claire Danes: Sookie Sapperstein
• Jeff Goldblum: D.H. Banes
• Jared Harris: Russel
• Amanda Peet: Rachel
• Ryan Phillippe: Oliver 'Ollie' Slocumb
• Bill Pullman: Jason Slocumb
• Susan Sarandon: Mimi Slocumb
• Rory Culkin: 10-year-old Igby
• Peter Anthony Tambakis: 13-year-old Oliver
• Bill Irwin:Lt. Ernest Smith, Pershing Academy
• Kathleen Gati: Ida
• Gannon Forrester: Little Cadet
• Celia Weston: Bunny
• Elizabeth Jagger: Lisa Fiedler

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External links

• Official site
• Igby Goes Down at the Internet Movie Database